Killer Mikedelivers a brief verse on the latest episode of South Park, rapping about the injustice of long prison sentences. The new episode, titled “Hummels and Heroin” addresses both United States’ criminal justice policy and the country’s ongoing opioid epidemic. It’s South Park, though, so of course there’s a twist: …
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Just in case you’ve ever wondered whether it’s actually possible to trace conspiracy theories back to their origins, here’s one where you can. In March 2017, an eyebrow-raising headline started circulating the Internet: “Hundreds of Fans Claim They Saw Justin Bieber Turn Into a Giant Reptile.” The original website where …
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The Pretenders surge through their 1981 track “Talk of the Town” in a preview of their upcoming Austin City Limits episode, which premieres Saturday, October 14th. Chrissie Hynde and James Walbourne form a wall of rippling guitar chords on the dreamy Pretenders II track. In another exclusive clip of their …
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As 2017 winds down, Luke Bryan will be winding up with his sixth studio album and spot at the judges’ table on a reboot of American Idol. Bryan shared details about his new album, titled What Makes You Country, earlier today. Produced by Jeff Stevens and Jody Stevens, the 15-track …
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Kesha honored Tom Petty with a stripped-down cover of “Into the Great Wide Open” during her concert in Boston Wednesday. Petty died Monday at the age of 66 after going into cardiac arrest. “I’m not trying to be a downer, but I just think this is one of the most …
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Just six months ago, at the Fine Line Music Café in Minneapolis, Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives delivered a harmony-laden acoustic version of “Runnin’ Down a Dream,” a scorching rocker from Tom Petty’s 1989 solo debut LPFull Moon Fever. Following Petty’s death on Monday night, tributes to the influential …
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Despite a distance of 1,800 miles, the horror of Sunday night’s deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas hit close to home in Nashville. The domestic terror attack claimed the lives of at least 59 country music fans attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival, leaving another 515 wounded at an event …
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No period in David Bowie‘s career is more curious than the trilogy of albums he recorded in the late Seventies while living in Berlin’s artsy Schöneberg district. They’re defiantly uncommercial, stacking soundtrack-y, atmospheric soundscapes alongside pop songs, and they’re bizarrely endearing – “The hin-ter-land, the hin-ter-land/We’re gonna sail to the …
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Nick Jonas was at Coachella when he found the inspiration for his latest single “Find You,” a lightly house-inflected new pop song which steers him away from the more R&B leaning style of his last two solo albums. “I was jumping around a bunch of stages, trying to find a …
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Dhani Harrison released another cinematic song, “Summertime Police,” from his upcoming debut solo LP, IN///PARALLEL. The arrangement unfolds in two parts. It opens in an ambient calm of glacial guitars that become stabbing synths, distorted bass and an elastic bent-note guitar solo. The lyrics conjure an unnerving police state that …
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